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Author : Chrysanthi Gallou
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060992693
Based on the author's PhD thesis, this volume examines the possibility of a cult of the dead among the Mycenaean civilisations.
Author : Martin Persson Nilsson
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 0819602736
Author : Bernard C. Dietrich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110840872
Nilsson's seminal work on Minoan-Myceanaean religion had its second edition in 1950 prior to the decipherment of Linear B; yet he found much in the archaeological record of the Bronze Age which he associated with later Greek religion. In that respect his insights were vindicated by the reading of those tablets which bore the names of classical Greek divinities, though at tme time new conclusions were needed about Indo-European arrival in Greek lands. Dietrich, with Nilsson very much in mind, starts from the premises that beliefs and their associated rites are inherently conservative; that, even where populations change, they tend to do so gradually, creating fusions rather than wholesale disruptions in ritual practice. An understanding of classical Greek religion thus, necessarily, depends on appreciation of its forerunners in the Bronze Age; and they, in turn, on evidence from the better documented religions of the Middle East. Dietrich's four main chapters deal first with those eastern links; then with the old traditions of Minoan Crete; next with the interplay of pre-Greek Minoan and Greek Mycenaean cultures; and finally he attempts to bridge the commonly assumed divide between bronze age and archaic Greece. Appendixes deal with Minoan peak-sanctuaries, with Apollo at Delphi, and (sympathetically) with Nilsson's pervasive view that Greek mythology was first formulated in the Mycenaean age. In these areas a great deal more work has been done since 1974. Dietrich's thoroughly researched work was at once trend-setting and provocative. It is here made available for the first time in paperback; for it still contains much of importance for the student of Greek religion.
Author : Irene J. F. de Jong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Civilization, Homeric
ISBN : 0415145295
Author : Christopher B. Hays
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802873118
Death is one of the major themes in First Isaiah, although it has not generally been recognized as such. In this study Christopher Hays offers fresh interpretations of more than a dozen passages in Isaiah 538 in light of ancient beliefs about death. Hays first summarizes what is known about death in the ancient Near East during the Second Iron Age, covering beliefs and practicesin Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Judah/Israel. He then shows how select passages in the first part of Isaiah employ the rhetorical imagery of death that was part of their cultural context, and he also identifies ways in which those texts break new creative ground. This books holistic approach to questions that have attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades produces new insights not only for the interpretation of specific biblical passages but also for the formation of the book of Isaiah and for the history of ancient Near Eastern religions.
Author : Christopher B. Hays
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bible
ISBN : 3161507851
Death is one of the major themes of 'First Isaiah, ' although it has not generally been recognized as such. Images of death are repeatedly used by the prophet and his earliest tradents.The book begins by concisely summarizing what is known about death in the Ancient Near East during the Iron Age II, covering beliefs and practices in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Judah/Israel. Incorporating both textual and archeological data, Christopher B. Hays surveys and analyzes existing scholarly literature on these topics from multiple fields.Focusing on the text's meaning for its producers and its initial audiences, he describes the ways in which the 'rhetoric of death' functioned in its historical context and offers fresh interpretations of more than a dozen passages in Isa 5-38. He shows how they employ the imagery of death that was part of their cultural contexts, and also identifies ways in which they break new creative ground.This holistic approach to questions that have attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades produces new insights not only for the interpretation of specific biblical passages, but also for the formation of the book of Isaiah and for the history of ancient Near Eastern religions
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004375963
Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores the theme of visits to the underworld in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions from a broad perspective including written sources, iconography and archaeology.
Author : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136788000
Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Author : Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0198150695
This book offers a series of in-depth studies of the beliefs, attitudes, and rituals surrounding death in ancient Greece, from the Minoan and Mycenean period to the end of the classical age. Drawing on a wide range of evidence--from literary texts, to inscriptions, to images in art--Sourvinou-Inwood sheds light on many key, still problematic, aspects of Greek life, myth, and literature. She also looks at the problem of "reading" this material within the context of our own culturally-determined beliefs.
Author : Arthur John Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108060912
Published in 1901, this highly illustrated work surveys the evidence for a common form of religious worship across the Mediterranean Mycenaean world.
Author : V. R. d'A. Desborough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556352010
So careful and complete a study of late Mycenaean remains as is included in this volume has never before been made. On the basis of a very thorough examination of all types of artifacts from all regions of the Mycenaean world the author is able to make observations concerning events in the Aegean between 1200 and 1000 BC that probably come as close to the actual course of events as presently available material permits. --Saul S. Weinberg, University of Missouri, for American Journal of Archaeology
Author : T. B. L. Webster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317694519
This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek ‘Dark Ages’), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from archaeology. Specifically, Webster utilises Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B in 1952 – which proved that Greek was spoken in the Mycenaean world – to determine the general contours of aesthetic development from Mycenae to the time of the written composition of the Homeric epics. Because they record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis civilisation, they show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean. Further, where it is clear that these Mycenaean elements cannot have survived until Homer’s time, they tell us something about the poetry which connected the two.
Author : Joanne M. A. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190926069
"Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century, dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book contributes to that body of scholarship by exploring both the level of variety and of similarity that we see in the practices at each site and thereby highlights the differences between communities that otherwise look very similar. By bringing together an international group of scholars working on tombs and cemeteries on mainland Greece, Crete, and in the Dodecanese we are afforded a unique view of the development and diversity of these communities. The papers provide a penetrative analysis of the related issues by discussing tombs connected with sites ranging in size from palaces to towns to villages and in date from the start to the end of the Late Bronze Age. This book contextualizes the mortuary studies in recent debates on diversity at the main palatial and secondary sites and between the economic and political strategies and practices throughout Greece. The papers in the volume illustrate the pervasive connection between the mortuary sphere and society through the creation and expression of cultural narratives, and draw attention to the social tensions played out in the mortuary arena"--
Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0674362810
A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.
Author : Bryan Feuer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786417483
Classical Greeks considered the Mycenaean civilization to be the basis of their glorious and heroic heritage, but its material existence was not confirmed until the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann in the late nineteenth century. In the ensuing years, as with the field of archaeology in general, emphasis has shifted from revealing monuments and finding treasure to dealing with less glamorous, more scientifically-oriented investigations concerning aspects such as social and political organization, economic functions and settlement patterns. With its more than 2000 entries, this reference work serves as both an introduction to and a summary of the study of ancient Mycenaean civilization. Considerably expanded from the first edition, there are 500 new entries representing materials published since 1991. The largest part of the book is made up of annotated bibliography entries arranged topically with introductory material for each section. The book also includes a general introduction to Mycenaean civilization, a glossary, and author, place and subject indexes.
